The Messianic Secret [Hardcover]

The seminal text addressing the presentation of Jesus self-perception in the Gospel of Mark.


William Wrede was among the first to recognise the creative contribution of the Gospel writers. His work thus laid the foundation for the work of the Form Critics, Redaction Critics and Literary Critics whose scholarship dominated New Testament studies during the twentieth century. This highly influential work was throughout this period the departure point for all studies in the Gospel of Mark and in the literary methods of the evangelists. It remains highly relevant for its ground-breaking approach to the classically complicated question of whether Jesus saw himself and represented himself as the Messiah.GBTranslators Preface
Authors Preface
Introduction

Part One: Mark
1. Some Preliminaries on the General Picture of the Messianic History of Jesus
2. The Self-Concealment of the Messiah
3. Concealment Despite Revelation
4. Mark in Retrospect

Part Two: The Later Gospels
5. Matthew and Luke
6. John

Part Three: Historical Elucidation
7. The Concealment of the Messiahship up to the Resurrection
8. The Disciples Lack of Understanding
9. More on Mark and Luke
10. On the Further History of the Ideas

Appendices
i. On the Confession of Peter
ii. The Prohibitions of Jesus
iii. The Idea of Education in Mark
iv. On the Prophecies of Suffering and Resurrection
v. On the Text of Mark 10.32
vi. On Mark 10.47
vii. Predecessors